Barbershop 2: Back in Business

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Barbershop 2
Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Produced by Robert Teitel
George Tillman, Jr.
Written by Mark Brown (characters)
Don D. Scott (screenplay)
Starring Ice Cube
Cedric the Entertainer
Sean Patrick Thomas
Eve
Music by Richard Gibbs
Cinematography Tom Priestley
Editing by Patrick Flannery
Paul Seydor
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) February 6, 2004
Running time 106 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30 million
Gross revenue $65,971,313
Preceded by Barbershop
Followed by Beauty Shop
Barbershop: The Series

Barbershop 2: Back in Business is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, produced by State Street Pictures and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on February 6, 2004. A sequel to the 2002 movie Barbershop, also from State Street producing team Robert Teitel and George Tillman, Jr., Barbershop 2 deals with the impact of gentrification on the reputation and livelihood of a long-standing south Chicago barbershop.

Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, and several other actors reprise their roles from the first Barbershop film. Barbershop 2 also features what is billed as a "special appearance" by Queen Latifah, who starred in a spin-off, Beauty Shop which was released by MGM in early 2005.

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[edit] Plot

Calvin Palmer, Jr. has finally settled comfortably into his role as the owner of the inner city barbershop founded by his grandfather. The shop's latest threat comes from overzealous developer Quentin Leroux who opens a rival barbershop across the street, called Nappy Cutz.

While Calvin attempts to figure out how to deal with the coming threat of direct competition from Quentin's flashy establishment, his barbers have issues of their own. Isaac, the lone white barber, is now the star of the shop, and begins to feel that he deserves star treatment. Terri is finding success in managing her anger, but not in dealing with her attraction to Ricky - which it leads to them making out in the back room of the barbershop. But are caught by Isaac which causes them to stop. Jimmy has quit the shop to work for the local alderman; his replacement, Calvin's cousin-by-marriage Kenard, is fresh out of barber school and horribly inept at cutting hair. With the barbershop and other businesses like it under threat from gentrification, Eddie reminisces several times to his time as a young man in the late 1960s, when he first started working at the shop, including the riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

After attempting to change his own barbershop's style and decor to match those of his rival, Calvin speaks out against the neighborhood's gentrification at the local city council meeting in an attempt to stop the changes in their neighborhood. The council doesn't change their mind and continues the project. But in the end, old customers remain loyal to Calvin's barbershop.

[edit] Cast

The character Gina was given a spin-off movie, Beauty Shop, where she was given a last name, Norris, and her niece (Keshia Knight Pulliam) and family were introduced. Gina also moved from Chicago to Atlanta, Georgia when her daughter Vanessa was accepted into a music school.

[edit] Soundtrack

Main article: Barbershop 2: Back in Business (soundtrack)

A soundtrack containing hip hop and R&B music was released on February 3, 2004 by Interscope Records. It peaked at #18 on the Billboard 200 and #8 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

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You Got Served		 Box office number-one films of 2004 (USA)
February 8, 2004		 Succeeded by
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